Monuments to Murder: Smithfield's bloody history
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St Paul's Churchyard
London
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Visitor Information
Fridays, 2pm
Tickets cost £7 (£6 concs, under 12s go free). Please pay the guide direct, s/he will be waiting by the east entrance. The guide will identify themselves by name and will be wearing an official badge.
Please note: walks leave promptly at the advertised time.
London’s oldest hospital, public executions, rebellion, celebrations, John Betjeman and more – Smithfield has seen it all. Now famous for its wholesale meat market (where traders sell to personal shoppers in the wee small hours); its Norman church which featured in Shakespeare in Love; and its memorial to William Wallace who was hanged, drawn and quartered there – a walk around Smithfield is still an endless surprise.
Accessibility
This walk involves dealing with kerbs but is otherwise suitable for people with mobility disabilities.